Month: August 2005

Continue reading “Meme for the little sis!” →

Except it doesnt go “choo choo” anymore. I’m going to Scranton for a week (Wed-Tues) to see the family and attend the Girl Scout Camp staff reunion at good old Camp Archbald. Tom can’t go, so I’m taking the train to Philly and renting a car there for the week. I’m looking forward to the trip, except for missing the spoose big time.

Packing and work stuff before I go.

I don’t know how many people read this, but I realized that I hadn’t used this medium to try and get the word out about two great programs. Both are Army Library programs and both are designed to directly support the morale of our soldiers fighting overseas.

1. Video Messengers: The Army’s Community and Family Support Center has distributed Video Messenger units to most of the US army installations. These units are footlocker-sized DVD and video recording units. They can be used to make a 30 minute video message. A soldier or military family member can come to the library and use the Video Messenger to make a recording. The library will mail the message to any US or APO address. 30 minute DVD’s and tapes are provided by CFSC for use with the unit. To find out more, contact your local installation library.

2. Book Kits: The Army Library program will ship a kit of about 25 new mass market paperback books to any APO address. Anyone can request a book kit, just send a letter to your local installation library requesting a book kit and include the following information: Name of Contact soldier in the unit; unit information; APO address of unit; name and address of person requesting the kit (if different from the soldier).

If you know a soldier or military family, please pass the word along!

I just realized that the recent spasm of Christian moralism (typified by the issue of pharmacists declaring they won’t fill prescriptions for birth control on religious grounds not to mention all of our imperial cowboying around in the Middle East)is just the latest manifestation of “do it if it feels good” 60’s style asshattery.

See the discussion in j_alan_b for more on the pharmacists.

Ok, here’s my logic.

1. The Boomers are old fogies now and have discovered that they don’t really love all mankind like they said they did in their 20’s.

2. As a natural consequence of aging, things from the past look better and better the farther away we get from them. Therefore, many of these same Boomers are turning again to the traditional religions of their youths.

3. Due to social and technological advances and the passage of time, people other than white Christian men are flexing their political muscles.

4. This is scary to white Christian men (even ones who once called themselves Moonbeam).

5. Social structures in the USA no longer support institutionalized asshattery to women, homosexuals, foreigners and minorities.

6. Traditional Christianity is still big on the white Christian man, and vice versa.

7. Supporting “traditional Christian values” is not only morally sound, but gives the finger to big government, Hollywood liberals and the afforementioned women, homosexuals, foreigners and minorities, the new “system”.

8. Making the white Christian men radicals again. F— the system, damn activist judges abrogating our freedom of religion.

9. Just on the other side of the social divide from their 60’s pot-smoking, “free love” selves.

10. Therefore, do it if it feels good. Let’s save some souls, dude.

And people wonder why I can’t sleep at night. “The Handmaid’s Tale” anyone?

This is actually a higher score than I had expected. The test needs more math questions. Then my score will plummet like a paralyzed falcon.

Frickin’ allergies.

Something, somewhere is in bloom and it is setting me off just enough to be annoying, but not enough to justify the foggy head feeling of the meds I’m not taking, if you see what I mean.

Tom is miserable too, he’s got some kind of chest cold (I did get him medicine, I’m not completely heartless). He gets so gloomy when he’s sick. I hate to say it, but I’m honestly looking forward to my week away for more than just the “seeing the family and friends” reasons. I love my husband, but he can be such a pill sometimes. I think a week is just enough time to miss him and appreciate him (and vice versa) that I’m happy to come back.

I don’t think we spend too much time together, but we do share our hobbies a lot more than other couples I know. We do often go to the same event and then do different things, so that counts as time apart.
He’s a wonderful, affectionate guy, but he is very needy sometimes, maybe all guys are needy and I just haven’t noticed. I think the most aggravating thing is his pouting when I choose not to watch a stupid movie or TV show with him and instead choose to do an activity in another room. This is honestly no reflection on him, and can be chalked up entitrely to the two-fold factors of my being tired of stupid TV and movies and my feeling that I should be doing something constructive instead of watching TV and he acts like it’s the sign of the end of our marriage. If I reject his movie, I am, therefore, rejecting him and it’s just an inevitable slide to the end. *SIGH*

Sometimes I think I’d like to meet his ex-wife and compare notes, but them I realize that if I did meet his ex-wife, I would instead be compelled to bitch slap her into a coma for messing him up so much, so that wouldn’t be very constructive.

Just venting.